On 7/13/06, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:23:36PM -0700, kewlemer wrote: > On 7/13/06, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 02:12:51PM -0700, kewlemer wrote: > >> I am porting the e1000 driver to C++ and have some problems in getting > >> the forced speed and duplex settings right. > > > >Why not just ask the authors of the driver? They are listed in the > >MAINTAINERS file. > > > I did. When I failed to get a response even after a day, I posted it here. You only waited 1 day? That's pretty impatient. People are busy with things, and have limited time.
I guess I could have waited longer. But when other questions posted after I did where getting responses, I felt mine was ignored :( (especially when for a person who knows the hardware it would take a few minutes to respond).
> >And why port a working driver to C++, which does not work in the kernel? > >Are you doing this for a different operating system? > > > It's actually going to be a userland driver for the C++ stack I am > working on. It runs on QNX and Montavista Linux. Is your C++ stack released under the GPL?
Unfortunately not.
And you do know this is a Linux kernel specific mailing list, right?
All the new hardware run Linux. The older ones were shipped with QNX. In fact I am doing all the work on Linux ones and this is my first priority. Thanks, K -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
